DEP/DUA/1/36/10 (Transcript version)

John McDougall

1784

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N^o5 Octr. 29. 1784.

John McDougall at 23, complains of severe cough attended at times with disagreeable headach. The cough is generally much aggravated towards the evening & encreases during the night to such a degree as to deprive him of rest. At bed time he is always attackd with intense cold & shivering fits, which most commonly continue till day break at which time a profuse sweat superveens & remains for the space of two or three hours.

Belly generally costive, & at times he is affected with severe gripes, Appetite very good but he says the cough is often so severe, as to occasion the rejection by vomiting, of every thing which is taken in, Pulse 80, Tongue rather white & he has a great craving for liquids.

About six weeks ago, he was first attackd with the above symptoms, at which time he was employd in harvest work in Cambridge-shire.

He complaind first of troublesome pain across his loins, & in his head. These however were the only obvious symptoms for upwards of three weeks. But soon after that period the symptoms above describd succeeded.

He can assign no cause for his complaint but was in a fenny part of the country at the commencement of his disease.

He has taken no medicine but a vomit & that without benefite